Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House, to crow: "He intends to take a very strong leadership role; Watergate is a receding problem." Her optimism, however, was premature; Watergate is by no means fading. In fact, it has so permeated the national consciousness that its themes are in soap operas and newspaper comic strips. Orphan Annie, a Right-minded strip distributed by the pro-Nixon New York News Inc., recently made the point that a man'of high principles-like Daddy Warbucks or, by implication, Richard Nixonwould never stoop to authorize a burglary...
...comic scenes delight in visual as well as verbal madness. Heads pop wildly from behind a screen of evergreens during Malvolio's undoing and Sir Andrew Aguecheek mouthes Sir Toby Belch's speech simultaneously from the opposite end of the stage. Even the propmen are carried away, hamming it up as they wander in to change scenes...
...well-conceived. Although some of them go slightly overboard and become too heavy handed--particularly in the opening and closing scenes--this is a weakness more than compensated for by the quality of other performances. Richard Hope, a bull-headed, red-nosed, raucous Sir Toby Belch, dominates the comic scenes, but his presence is well supported by Linda Dobb's sharp Maria and Locke Bowman's fussy Sir Andrew. Sunny Tufts carries off the difficult part of Viola with grace and Mark Daniels as a quivering chinned Malvolio is inspired...
...Simon, as he is known, has provided so much pleasure to so many playgoers over the years that he is certainly entitled to prescribe a brand of entertainment that exerts a tonic effect on him. If the comic medicine seems a trifle watery on this occasion, it still possesses more potency than the dramatic quack remedies so often fobbed off on Broadway...
...when Sendak was nine. He and his older brother Jack wrote and illustrated books that they hand-lettered, decorated and bound with tape. By the time he was in high school, he was illustrating homework instead of doing it. Afternoons and weekends were spent working for All American Comics, where he adapted Mutt and Jeff strips for comic books...